Professor Lesley Millar MBA, Professor of Textile Culture, Director of the International Textile Research Centre, University for the Creative Arts wrote a beautiful passage about Richard’s work, here’s a segment from it….
"The work of Richard McVetis is a materialising of opposing forces: attraction and dispersal; quietude and activity; absence and presence. Tiny stitches, black on white, recording the finger movements of the maker across the work, passing through the cloth, finding their place, embedded in the space. These actions emerge from an immersion in the process, one that requires a tacit understanding of the space defined by bodily action. I wrote once: 'Space: we live in it. From cosmic space reaching and spreading beyond our comprehension, to the Nano space present in the intimacy between two surfaces pressed together. It’s out there, it’s in here and it is always with us. It surrounds us and we move through it'. And to negotiate that space we look to create a spatial framework - a cube, a grid or a map, a controlling structure originating from the space itself."
Richard McVetis - image by Benjamin McMahon
